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July 24, 1921: Publication of the anonymous book "The Mirrors of Washington" stirs a guessing game all over the capital to find out who wrote the gossipy word portraits of influential politicians, including Presidents Wilson and Harding (caricature from the book). 1/2

July 16, 1921: Police in Berlin are patrolling the Tegel forest to round up and cover up nudists as they openly loll about. The description of them as a "sect" is likely journalistic exaggeration. The naturist movement has a long, if controversial, history in Germany.

July 8, 1921: Ziegfeld Follies star Peggy Hopkins Joyce wins $1,350 a month in alimony, plus court costs of $40,000, in her divorce from wealthy Chicago lumber dealer James Stanley Joyce. This is the third of four marriages for the much-written-about actress. (Chicago Tribune)

July 7, 1921: Roman nobleman Filippo Andrea VI Doria Pamphilj marries a Scottish nurse, Gesine Mary Dykes, who nurtured him back to health after a bout with tuberculosis had paralyzed his spine. His family bitterly oppose the match and shun the wedding in London. 1/2

June 26, 1921: A grim story emerges from the oil boomtown of El Dorado, Ark. A jobless father living in a tent city sends his children to forage for mushrooms for dinner, but they gather toadstools. The meal kills the two brothers, ages 9 and 7, and a woman neighbor who joins in.